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The point is if they're going to get access to your PC it's not going to be to turn on a webcam to see a sticky note on your monitor bezel. They're gonna do other nefarious shit or keylog, etc.
Why keylog and pick up 10k random characters to sift through when the password they want is written down for them?
Again, how is the attacker going to see a piece of paper that is stuck to the side of the screen? This rule makes sense in high traffic areas, but in a private persons home? The attacker would also need to be a burglar.
It seems that some people are having trouble following the conversation and a basic stream of topical logic.
The initial premise was that somebody could see your passwords by pwning your machine... And using that to... Turn on webcam so they could steal your password so they could... pwn your machine?
Lol
Nope. The premise is they pwn ANOTHER, less secure, personal device and use the camera from the DIFFERENT device to pwn your work computer. For example, by silently installing Pegasus on some cocky "security is dumb lol" employee's 5 year out-of-date iphone via text message while they're sleeping, and use the camera from that phone to recon the password.
They probably wouldn't want the $3.50 that person has in their bank account, but ransoming corporate data pays bank, and wire transfering from a corporate account pays even better! If you're in a highly privileged position, or have access to execute financial transactions at a larger company, pwning a personal device isn't outside of the threat model.
Most likely that threat model doesn't apply to you, but perhaps at least put it under the keyboard out of plain sight?
Would you just stop.
I made one comment to you clarifying the other person's point because you clearly didn't understand what they were saying. Personally seen a couple of small companies fold because they were ransomed from a password on a post it. But you do you.